Company 72 again accused of illegal logging

1 April 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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Adhoc / Company 72 / Dork Sar / Hun Sen / Paknhai commune

Ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri province have once again accused the Vietnamese owners of a rubber plantation of illegally logging their ancestral forests in a complaint filed with rights group Adhoc. A district official, however, said the plantation owner, Company 72, was granted an extension on its existing 6,000-hectare concession, and was therefore logging within its bounds. … Amid mounting criticism of forced evictions caused by industrial-scale plantations, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered a freeze on the granting of additional economic land concession in mid-2012. Though the 1,000 hectares granted to Company 72 were technically an addition to an existing concession, Chhay Thy, Ratanakkiri provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, said it should count as a violation of the prime minister’s order. …

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